Tag: friendship

I'm not sure what to tell you
I want you to choose this tiny life
this complicated and inconvenient way 
forward

I see my own hypocrisy
and how sure I was 
not to have another
if it came to that

But I bled
and you didn't
so who am I to say
which way is East?

You make me smile so hard.
"I know!  I know!"
We commiserate
that our arms grew so long
we finally wear glasses
and we have given up
understanding teenagers.
But when we talk together
we are at once here in the
middle of life
and back at the beginning
where we started:
twenty and in no hurry
to crack open the books after dinner.

I had a friend in college
you know the one:
smart, funny
handsome, kind
never breaking my heart
but never filling it, either

Thirty years on and half a world away
we talk of children, politics
spouses now and past
I exhale knowing that he, though dear
was not the one who got away